# limus
## English
### Noun

limus
* plural of limu

### Anagrams

* mulis, simul

## Ilocano
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish limosna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /liˈmus/ [liˈmus]
* Hyphenation: li‧mus

### Noun

limús (plural limlimus)
* alms

#### Derived terms

* agpalimus
* ilimus
* limusan
* limusan
* lumimus
* makilimlimos
* mananglimus

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈliː.mus/, [ˈlʲiːmʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈli.mus/, [ˈliːmus]

### Etymology 1

Possibly from Proto-Italic *līmos (“oblique”), with no known cognates outside of Italic. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend”). Compare perhaps Proto-Germanic *limuz (“limb, branch”).

#### Adjective

līmus (feminine līma, neuter līmum); first/second-declension adjective
* sidelong, askew, askance, sideways

##### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

##### Derived terms

* līmes
* līmō
* Līmus

#### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “līmus 2”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 342–343: “PIt. *(s)līmo-?”
* ↑ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

### Etymology 2

Somewhat uncertain; maybe from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”) or *(s)ley-mo- (“slime”). Possible cognates include λίμνη (límnē, “marsh, pool, lake”), Sanskrit लिनाति (lināti, “sticks, stays, adheres to; slips into, disappears”), Ukrainian слимак (slymak, “snail”), Old Church Slavonic слина (slina, “spittle”), Old Irish sligim (“to smear”), leinam (“I follow”, literally “I stick to”), Irish lean, Welsh llyfn (“smooth”), English slime. According to De Vaan, Ancient Greek λεῖμαξ (leîmax, “snail”) is probably conversely borrowed from Latin.

#### Noun

līmus m (genitive līmī); second declension
* mud, slime, muck
* (figuratively) feces within the bowels
* filth, pollution

##### Declension

Second-declension noun.

##### Derived terms

* līmōsus
* līmāx

##### Related terms

* līmō

##### Descendants

* Albanian: lym
* Catalan: llim
* French: limon
* Galician: limo
* Italian: limo
* Portuguese: limo
* Romanian: im
* Spanish: limo

#### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “līmus 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 342

### Etymology 3

Perhaps from ligō (“tie, bind”)

#### Noun

līmus m (genitive līmī); second declension
* a priest's apron

##### Declension

Second-declension noun.

##### Derived terms

* līmocīnctus

### Further reading

* (adjective) “limus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* (mud) “limus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* (apron) “limus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “limus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* limus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “limus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “limus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
* “limus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin